Well, last year was quite easy for devs: to collect funds they needed just a nice website and a whitepaper full of “blockchain, decentralized, groundbreaking” and so on. Now we are in a very different situation which is not in favor of projects that would like to reach a soft cap with an actual solution. Competition is a very important factor that will improve the quality of successful projects drastically. This way, we become accepted by a wider community of people which will ultimately lead to the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies
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